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In Board of Governors of St Matthias Church of England School v Crizzle (23 February 1993) EOR52D, the EAT overrules an industrial tribunal and holds that a condition that an applicant for a post as headteacher in a Church of England school had to be "a committed communicant Christian" was justifiable, notwithstanding that it had an adverse impact upon those of Asian origin.

In advertising for a headteacher who was a
communicant in the Christian church, the governors of a Church of England
voluntary aided school did not indirectly racially discriminate against an
applicant of Asian origin, holds the EAT in Board of Governors of St
Matthias Church of England School v Crizzle. The school's worship and
ethos was properly within the control of the governors, and their objective -
to foster the Christian tradition of the school was legitimate and reasonable.
On balance, the religious requirement in the context of recruitment was
justifiable.

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